The Roswell UFO Incident is one of the most popular and mysterious incidents in the history of UFO theory. It involves the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico in United States of America. Since the late 1970s, this incident has become the subject of intense speculation, questioning and rumors. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and heated debate about what evidence can be believed. The US military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named “Mogul”. However many UFO proponents still believe that a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered from Roswell, and that the military is covering up the whole incident. This event ranks as one of the most publicized and controversial UFO incidents ever.

On 8th July 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that its personnel had recovered a crashed “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. However later on the same day, they issued another statement that contradicted the first saying, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a “flying saucer”. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers.
Then, in 1978, a famous ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. This interview garnered huge national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Soon additional reports and witnesses emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a huge military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the officers to conduct an internal investigation. The reports maintained that it was not an UFO but was just a weather balloon. However, these reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either bogus or simply implausible. A significant number of people still believe that RAAF is still housing the flying saucers that crashed in Roswell on 8th July1947.

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